They believe that recipes add a third dimension to travel writing in the way they evoke place, time and people. ...more

February 22, 2009

Stephen Grant Wood has always been around music. Even as a child growing up in Michigan, he wrote lyrics and taught himself to play music on an old acoustic guitar he found under his mom's bed. But it wasn't until Wood and his partner Rachel Lynn moved to Ypsilanti that Wood found his true musical voice. In the city in southeastern Michigan he hung out with factory workers whose families had come to the Wolverine State from the South. The transplanted Southerners started Wood and Lynn down the road of the country music on which they will focus during their performance next Saturday, Feb. 28, at The Witch's Brew, in Palm Harbor. ...more

February 21, 2009

"Descended from the apes!" exclaimed the wife of the bishop of Worcester. "Let us hope that it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known." ...more

February 9, 2009

Southern cooking has become a hot food trend. ...more

December 22, 2008

In her early years, my mother always made stuffing spiked with the turkey's giblets. My memory is a little cloudy on this, but I seem to recall in her later years, she had a desire to shake things up a bit. So she made an outside-the-bird dressing, gloriously flavored with oysters. ...more

November 26, 2008

In her early years, my mother always made stuffing spiked with the turkey's giblets. My memory is a little cloudy on this, but I seem to recall in her later years, she had a desire to shake things up a bit. So she made an outside-the-bird dressing, gloriously flavored with oysters. ...more

November 26, 2008

Here's one Thanksgiving staple is served by almost every American family - and destroyed by almost every cook at some point. ...more

November 14, 2008

I grew up in the rural South where passions ran deep about "the horrible Yankees who invaded our territory and destroyed a way of life." As I got older and studied the Civil War, I realized the reasons the war was fought were more complicated than the emotional tirades I heard as a child. ...more

August 10, 2008

If you haven't heard the names Swamp Thang, Sweat Thang or Miss Billie Waide's Bread and Butter Pickles, you haven't been spending nearly enough time in Ruskin. ...more

July 30, 2008

If you haven't heard the names Swamp Thang, Sweat Thang or Miss Billie Waide's Bread and Butter Pickles, you haven't been spending nearly enough time in Ruskin. ...more

July 30, 2008